About Psbot

What is Psbot?
Picsearch indexes images from the web. To do this we use a
web-crawler which identifies itself as 'Psbot'.

Load Spreading Technique
Picsearch utilizes a load spreading technique which reduces the load on
the indexed domains' web-servers. The effect of this is that the
crawler will not put any noticeable strain on the servers.

How to Avoid Being Indexed
If you do not wish Picsearch to index your images please add
'psbot' to your robots.txt file according to the
The Robot Exclusion Standard (example provided below). If you do
not have access to the robots.txt file Psbot also obeys the
robots meta tag and the psbot meta tag.
(examples provided below).

robots.txt example:
Include the following in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /

Robots META tag example:
Include the following in the head section of your web-page:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Psbot META tag example:
Include the following in the head section of your web-page:

<meta name="psbot" content="noindex,nofollow">

Experiencing Problems?
Although Psbot should not put any noticeable strain on a webserver
we apologize for any inconvenience it may cause and would ask you to
notify Picsearch about any problems at
psbot@picsearch.com in order
for us to rectify them as quickly as possible. Thank you.

You must obtain the appropriate permissions to use any image linked to from Picsearch from the owner(s) of the material.